Nicholas Hagen

One of the features of HTTP that is widely used, yet strangely a hack, is the User-Agent header. Several sites and servers use the agent to detect a browser’s capabilities. For example, a site may attempt to detect IE browsers to handle custom stylesheets or javascript. A more traditional approach as of late is detecting [...]

As part of my new iPhone project to build a new game, I need to have a backend server to communicate with all the members in order to sync and dynamically update on the fly.  Knowing the iPhone and its possibilities, I want to plan for a highly optimistic future in which thousands of concurrent [...]